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Run down on current cloud based IAM standards
There has been some activity on cloud based IAM lately, most recently with the release of the new Intel Cloud based IAM solution. It looks pretty expensive for high volumes, but it might make sense for something that has total … Continue reading
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Tagged AuthN, AuthZ, cloud, IdM, provisioning, security, standards
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Google’s policy changes and implications for institutions using the service
There are fresh concerns over Google’s privacy policy change and how it will affect HE institutions that use google services. Tweet
ID provisioning with clouds
The architectural ideal is to have a single source of authority for identity and AuthN/Z claims, hopefully based on something nice and open like LDAP. Then we began to see lots of federated identity solutions entering with SAML type federations. … Continue reading
Strong Factor AuthN and Federated SSO
Some interesting webinars on modern security practices, including tokenization and federated SSO strong factor AuthN. Tweet
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Tagged architecture, cloud, Dev, enterprise, IdM, security, webservices
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SAS 70 -> SSAE 16 – What does it impact?
As you probably know, there is a new specification for the security audit. It was SAS 70, but is now SSAE 16. This is an important consideration if you are consuming a service from someone else, or if you provide … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cloud, management, policy, SaaS, security, standard
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Microsoft comes to the rescue of university research with the cloud
Microsoft has announced Project Daytona, but the licensing terms contain hidden dangers suitable for probing… Tweet
Data Virtualization Technology Advancements
As a follower of Virtualization technology, you have likely heard about the June 2011 Forrester Research report on Data Virtualization entitled Data Virtualization Reaches Critical Mass: Technology Advancements, New Patterns, And Customer Successes Make This Enterprise Technology Both A Short- … Continue reading
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Tagged BI, cloud, db, Dev, dw, nosql, virtualization, web 2.0
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DocumentCloud OCR and collaborative annotation
DocumentCloud is impressive. It is a cloud service that allows you to upload and publish documents that are OCR’ed and annotatable. It has impressive UX and is built on solid OSS components. Tweet
University of Nebraska moves from Lotus to Office 365
The University of Nebraska has been using Lotus Notes since 1997, across five campuses. And in 1997 Lotus would have been a good choice. Perhaps less so in 2011. Microsoft, in an effort to get some big enterprise names across … Continue reading
Cloud efficiencies for utilization and DCs
There is strong evidence out there that large to medium datacenters are running at 7-10x lower efficiencies than the large service centers being run by the likes of Amazon or Google. James Hamilton gave a talk on this topic, with … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, comp sci, datacenter, Dev, economics, management
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